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1. The mass or envelope of complex policies, procedures, and human relationships surrounding an institution (especially the one surrounding a school, college or university) which is retained by the group of people who manage or direct the institution.
2. The air or climate in a specific workplace, particularly in regard to the management or administration, which makes work in progress difficult due to a lack of clarity, decisiveness, communication, action, or common sense.
3. Abbr. adm Administrative Science a unit of pressure experienced on the job equal to the pressure of that job at an ideal institution. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a spinal column in an office chair at 20 degrees Celsius under standard gravity for eight hours a day for five consecutive days. See table at measurement.
4. A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude among administrators.
5. An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and displeasing one, associated with a particular place.
Middle English administren, from Old French administrer, from Latin administr re : ad, ad- + ministr re, to manage (from minister, ministr-, servant. See minister).
New Latin atmosphaera : Greek atmos, vapor; see wet in Indo-European Roots + Latin sphaera, sphere; see sphere.
1. The mass or envelope of complex policies, procedures, and human relationships surrounding an institution (especially the one surrounding a school, college or university) which is retained by the group of people who manage or direct the institution.
2. The air or climate in a specific workplace, particularly in regard to the management or administration, which makes work in progress difficult due to a lack of clarity, decisiveness, communication, action, or common sense.
3. Abbr. adm Administrative Science a unit of pressure experienced on the job equal to the pressure of that job at an ideal institution. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a spinal column in an office chair at 20 degrees Celsius under standard gravity for eight hours a day for five consecutive days. See table at measurement.
4. A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude among administrators.
5. An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and displeasing one, associated with a particular place.
Middle English administren, from Old French administrer, from Latin administr re : ad, ad- + ministr re, to manage (from minister, ministr-, servant. See minister).
New Latin atmosphaera : Greek atmos, vapor; see wet in Indo-European Roots + Latin sphaera, sphere; see sphere.
The student proposal to revise the dorm rules disappeared into the university’s adminosphere and eventually dissipated.
The adminosphere was full of distrust and infighting.
The prep school had a rather Draconian adminosphere.
I have got to find another job, the adminosphere is way to thick around here!
The adminosphere was full of distrust and infighting.
The prep school had a rather Draconian adminosphere.
I have got to find another job, the adminosphere is way to thick around here!
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Used to describe the groups of middle-aged women who run the administration in most institutions and corporations.
Origin: Admin + menopause. Administration/bureaucracy is thought to have been invented during the middle ages by crusaders and explorers to ensure their wives' fidelity while they were gone, by keeping them busy with useless paperwork, e.g. "I'm going to rescue the Holy Land darling, by the time I get back I want you to alphabetize this list of the serfs and cross reference it against a list of our debtors, graphed against the last ten years' harvests, etc. etc."
These tasks would keep the wives so busy they had no time for lovers. By the time the men came home, the women were so engrossed in the admin they kept doing it and passed it on to the next generation, believing this made up work to be of vital importance, an attitude which persists to this day.
Origin: Admin + menopause. Administration/bureaucracy is thought to have been invented during the middle ages by crusaders and explorers to ensure their wives' fidelity while they were gone, by keeping them busy with useless paperwork, e.g. "I'm going to rescue the Holy Land darling, by the time I get back I want you to alphabetize this list of the serfs and cross reference it against a list of our debtors, graphed against the last ten years' harvests, etc. etc."
These tasks would keep the wives so busy they had no time for lovers. By the time the men came home, the women were so engrossed in the admin they kept doing it and passed it on to the next generation, believing this made up work to be of vital importance, an attitude which persists to this day.
The adminopause have called another useless meeting.
The adminopause have got me so busy filling out forms I can't get anything done today.
Unemployment is down thanks to the growing adminopause sector.
The adminopause have got me so busy filling out forms I can't get anything done today.
Unemployment is down thanks to the growing adminopause sector.
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